On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:54 PM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:47:13PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
Greetings
I am quite new at running a server so hopefully the question isn't too out there.
My server has been operational for about a year and I am working on a number of different projects on it. Twice now (this last friday and 5 weeks early I came into the office to find that the server has somehow been taken down and has rebooted itself (process setup in the bios) but as it doesn't quite complete the boot process, I have to hit a key to tell it to continue and then finally to log in to read Debian (stable).
Who does the stopping? BIOS or Linux kernel?
Bios - - - need to hit F2 (IIRC) to kick the bios in the pants and then I can get to the os prompt a little later.
I ask because, my machine always stops at BIOS prompt when power comes back. I don't know why. I set the BIOS to "power off" when power comes back, so it should stay turned off, but it doesn't.
So I am trying to determine what may have caused the system to do a reboot, whilst I have my suspicions I want to figure out exactly what is happening to cause this kind of behavior. AIUI servers should be able to run happily for years without issues (barring hardware problems) so I want that kind of reliability. Where in /var/log will I be finding the most clues as to the events that lead up to this 'reboot'?
/var/log/message /var/log/syslog /var/log/debug
Thanks - - - that last one was quite useful. Dee